Hi Amanda,  One of my friend is suffering from cancer and he completed his first chemotherapy treatment. After chemo he is feeling pain in his shoulders. I just want to know that can he get Melbourne remedial massage? Please share your experience about it. ... View more

Hi Wegotthis, I think it's fair to say that everyone feels that their country is the best 🙂 There are a few Americans who are regulars on this forum. You are always welcome here. Just watch out for the dropbears ok? Best of luck with your treatment. -s   ... View more

Hi Vinouche, Please tell me how you are doing now & what sort of chemo you received ? I have unexpectedly just been diagnosed with SCC stage II. I'm being told my treatment plan is chemoradiation. (5Fu/Mitomycin+Radiation) for 5 weeks.  I feel extremely fortunate that my CA was caught during a colonoscopy and is relatively small and early. I can only pray that it goes as smoothly and easily as yours but know not to expect easy when it comes to chemo & radiation. I'm also being told that this particular chemo doesn't cause much if any hair loss.  I don't want to get my hopes up, but I am just searching for others who may have had this particular chemo regime. I want to be prepared mentally and also don't want to purchase unnecessary wig(s) if I truly don't need them. I sincerely hope you are thriving and living your best life.  Best, Melissa   ... View more

Hahaha Wombat yes, i can see that, i remember that frustration when nursing my years ago before she passed, (lung camcer and brain tumor) i would be like, omg if thats all you have to complain about. But hay its a huge lesson in compassion if nothing else, oh yeah and patience, and then more patience. And on your progress, wow from where you started yes that is positive, 💖 ... View more

Dearest Steve... I also had no support during chemo and after. I've lost nearly all my friends. Not one has asked how I am and how I'm doing. Not only did my friends desert me my parents also did. Kicked me out of the apartment they had for me while going through chemo...they said I complained to much and  shunned me even more for taking pain pills. I had become a junkie to them. Why can people not understand this horrible disease? I am 6 months out of chemo and still feel i haven't gotten a clear answer if is gone. every time i went to dr. It was everything looks great only to go into the hospital for SOB and be told there were three lymph nodes they were still looking at. My symptoms have started again. I feel abandoned from every corner. Dealing with cancer i thought would be the worst..no..now i have neuropathy and absolutley miserable. I'm scared and fed up that i may never get back to normal.  ... View more

Yes I swam with the dolphin and one kept pushing on my left side with its beak. I later found out I had cancer in my left kidney. ... View more

Hey Hey   In my opinion, this is one for the scientists, and whoever offers a point of view on it does not definitively KNOW.   Immunology is a major research area in cancer treatment, and is providing improved (and less damaging) treatment options for some types of cancer.  Great.   But that doesn't necessarily translate to immunity/metabolism preventing you from getting cancer in the first place.   From what I read, there's some kind of programmed death gene in all of us, some kind of marker that tells the body to start shutting down.  It's like that old saw about every cell in our body replacing itself over a 7 year period .. we're designed to rebuild and heal, but also eventually shut down.   Cancer is a mutation of healthy cells, that (just from a bit of reading) apparently is triggered by this programmed death process - and a lot of the immunology drugs geared toward treating cancer are designed toward over-riding this process (so that your healthy immune system can identify and fight the cancer).   Look, this is all just me as a layman interpreting science that is over my head .... BUT ....   That leads to the logical extrapolation that a healthy immune system doesn't necessarily specifically fight cancer.  The immunology meds are about MAKING THE CANCER VISIBLE to your immune system (and yeah I think also super charging the immune system).   So basically, this programmed death process, this mutation into cancer cells, is triggered (in my case apparently by HPV+), and it's a signal from the head honcho that it's time to pull the switches and go on vacation.   In my thinking, it leads that an otherwise healthy person with a supercharged immune system is just at risk of cancer as someone not (an oncologist said this to me, actually, when I was diagnosed).   BUT - eating all that healthy stuff and being healthy still FEELS great.   I just think anybody who asserts that they KNOW it will help you prevent cancer should be looked at suspiciously - likewise if they even assert it will help you FIGHT cancer (beyond how being and feeling healthier will help you).   I think it's all about that programmed death process, that trigger point where a cell starts thinking "ohh right, Im not meant to be here any more".  They kill those cells with radiation and hopefully they stay away.  But will immuno- medicine, hawaiian seaweed and all that stuff help ?   I guess the answer is probably a very definite maybe.   Our medical establishment isn't great in terms of being a source of knowledge - I've met with scientists to discuss things like autism, and for extremely intelligent people with a very rigorous protocol, they're like everyone else - flawed humans who don't like hearing that they don't know everything, or hearing viewpoints alternative to the narrative they've invested so much into.   So yeah - on the flipside, if the secret to preventing cancer is in some kind of SUPERIMMUNO stuff, the orthodox medical establishment probably will poo-poo it for as long as possible, until the evidence is just plain undeniable.   I reckon gene therapy is probably what we'll see in 25 years - where at risk persons are identified at birth and given a preventative innoculation of sorts.  As long as the zombie apocalypse doesn't happen in the interim. ... View more

Flight...     I am in the US and this is pretty much how they played the mortgage game out here....     Tax returns last 3 years, pay stubs last 3 months, bank statements last 3 months.    They also wanted to make sure we've had money for the down payment stewing in the bank for 6 months.    The rest of the mountain of paperwork was simply details and they qualified us for a mortgage payment not to exceed 25% of our income.    Life insurance?  Not a word-more like mortgage insurance.     Your income, your credit score and your down payment is what banks are interested in out here.     Regards, Joe Trucker ... View more

Hello lovely, just read this post even though it’s really old. I hope you are doing well and life is treating you well. Always here for a chat. Xx ... View more

Glad to see you have a "bucket list" to get through. Did you have a prostatectomy? My surgeon calmly pushed me toward that end, my PSA nearly doubled in six months, I was diagnosed January this year and he flat out told me no more watchful waiting this needs to come out! ... View more